After reaching number one on the Billboard 200 for the first time in his career earlier this year with drinking songs collection, Spring Break… Here To Party, country boy-next-door Luke Bryan promised that his fourth […]

One can’t help but cringe imagining the recording process for this entire album. The Civil Wars‘ new self-titled record (August 6) was made after a run of canceled tour dates signaled an indefinite hiatus due […]

Shortly after the global financial crisis began, music’s last genre mutation and subsequent co-option by the corporate powers that be, ‘brostep’ – dubstep emotionally strangled by bros – had worked its way into every form […]

Brad Paisley has always prided himself on his ability to throw the odd curveball into his mainstream Nashville sound, particularly on his last album, 2011’s This Is Country Music, which roped in guest artists as […]

Pioneers of the country-rock scene, Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell have enjoyed a fruitful working relationship since the mid-70s, both contributing to each other’s respective major-label debuts with the latter also appearing in an early incarnation […]

The six-pack he’s currently flaunting in People magazine certainly isn’t the only change country royalty Tim McGraw has undergone since he recorded Emotional Traffic back in 2010. For having finally broken free from the shackles […]